Samsung has asked a Californian court to dismiss seven of Apple's expert witnesses in a patent case - and claimed their "slavish" love for the Foxconn-rebrander means they are unable to give useful testimony.
In a Motion to Exclude Opinions of Certain of Apple's Experts, the South Korean giant's lawyers described the Apple …

RE: Who but an expert ...

I think the point was that they are claiming that their opinions are not going to be based mainly on facts or include biased becuase they are apple fanatics. To be an expert you have to be able to derive an opinion on evidence, not because you think it's neat.

or get an independent source

Re: or get an independent source

How's that supposed to work then? Just because you work for Nokia or RIM doesn't mean you might not have a bias one way or the other for or against Apple or Samsung. Neither side will have experts testify without knowing what they are planning to say, so they'll only select those who agree with their position. No difference from the situation now, in other words.

The only role for truly independent randomly selected experts would be if the court were to employ them, but such a thing doesn't exist in the US court system. Failing that, your desirability as an expert witness will hinge on you stating what the party signing your check wants the judge and jury to believe.

Re: Samsung Fanbois

Re: Samsung Fanbois

True there are fanbois, but samsung IS a good manufacturer, and their products talk to each other, and rivals, nicely.

Try connecting to a mates wifi when your round his house & showing photos/video on his tv without cables using an iPhone, I can do it with any DLNA equipped TV as standard. i.e. most new TV's with a network port!

Re: Samsung Fanbois ( AC 22nd May 2012 13:00 )

Re: Samsung telly app

Excellent to hear, I've never hunted for an iphone app for my telly as I don't have one... Now if the iPhone supported DLNA, MKV's, & had a decent sized screen, replaceable battery and took an SD card, it would then be a viable replacement to my SGS!

Re: Samsung Fanbois

True on Samsung lack of quality. We bought Samsung 6 monitors at work. 4 of them died between 2-3 years of age. Fortunately they were still under warranty and were replaced. Due to a 66% failure rate, I have removed Samsung as a choice when I replace my TV.

Re: Samsung Fanbois

Considering samsung make panels for other manufacturers, its best to check out the manufacturers supplier if your concerned about Samsung products, personally I have 3 BenQ monitors, and so far so good!

I did notice there was a distinct difference between country of purchase and quality/reliability, when I was reading reviews.

Re: Samsung Fanbois

I was about to proclaim my own Samsung fanboiïsm (i think i've just invented a new word!), but then i realized i was going to buy my first real smartphone soon, a Lumia 800. I do love their stuff though, i have a 40" LCD TV by Samsung and consider them first for all my electronics purchases. I've had several older phones by them as well. My love for Nokia phones is quite easy to explain though, i've been (or am, it's still lying around somewhere and i'm 100% sure it'll work when i find it and the battrery will be fine) the proud owner of a 6310i and let's face it, there will never be a better phone then that.

Re: Samsung Fanbois

i really can't imagine that's anything but plain bad luck. i've had Samsung stuff for over 20 years and have been amazed many times about the amount of physical abuse their hardware could take before it failed. i had one of those classic "boombox" sets with one of the first CD players in it. it survived savage beatings (loads of falling down from stuff, stairs, hills, out of windows, that kind of shit) and only died when my "friends" who borrowed it, thought it was a good idea to play a round of football with it (i still resent them for that).

Re: "Use, Reuse, Overuse, Abuse"

Re: "the Foxconn-rebrander" @Chris 19

Come now - for 95% of Reg readers, that's a classic example of pot and kettle, no? I would give examples, but there are so, so many (think of all the fun and oh-so-clever plays on Microsoft, Facebook and so on. Reg readers do have a habit of playing to the audience and thinking the resultant upvotes are a realistic measure of their intelligence ...)

>Anna- Given that Apple gear has never been released under the Foxconn brand, how the hell can be >Apple be said to be 'rebranding' it?

He gets downvoted, but no one has answered the question. Curious, that. I note that Anna then tells the same 'joke' again, on the Apple HQ story...

I don't really rate one platform over another, but if people don't take just a little care with the English language, our dialect will end up like either George W Bush or Chinese goods manual translated into English by machine.

Oh, and Anna, the forums here don't really need you to bait them, do they? They are plenty capable of straying from any pertinent point without your input, ta. Causing flames for the sake of it is just tedious if it is a fire that we have seen a thousand times before.